Tuesday 4 p.m.

Platelets are 12,000. This is progress considering we have not required platelets now in 24 hours, and the count has only dropped 5,000 in the past 12 hours. Inshallah this will get better soon. 

In the meantime, the immunologist talked to us about testing for another rare disease called Wiscott-Aldrich sydrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiskott-Aldrich_syndrome). We are not convinced that this is what Ibrahim has, but will probably go along with the test anyway. 

We told our doctors today that Saira received a dose of Penicillin while she was in labor with Ibrahim and asked if this could be an unusual reaction to penicillin. This has been reported in the literature, but quite rare. When we first came to the ER, Ibrahim received 2 days of an antibiotic very similar to Penicillin. If this is indeed a reaction to that antibiotic, it might explain why there has been such a delay in improvement. Tomorrow they will send out a test to check this theory.

There will be no further lab result until tomorrow 4 a.m.